Rants & Raves

A big rave for Doneane Williams and her quest for life. She is an inspiration to all of us. She certainly has shown that determination and a "can do" attitude can achieve amazing results

Headline: "Bobby Jindal: Make Congress part time." Great idea! The Founding Fathers set up the original Congress to operate for only a few weeks every other year. It stayed that way a good while. Then somebody invented air conditioning and by then congressmen/senators had grown their egos enough to move to D.C. and actually live there more than in their home districts/states. Thus, what we have now is a Congress that represents the District of Columbia. They stopped representing us years ago.

I have read the comics almost all my life and one of the things that gets me is what goes on with Beetle Bailey and the abuse he takes from Sgt. Snorkel. It is time to put that to rest and let there be peace between them and stop the fighting. Set an example of peace between them and let them work together. If not, send them to Korea and let them fight against the communists.

The media is so quick to talk about jobs created in the Augusta area. A year or two ago there was a big buzz about the new Verizon call service center and how it will employ hundreds. Why doesn't the media talk about it now? Hours cut down to sometimes 30 minutes a day, workers quitting because they can't afford to drive to Augusta for a one-hour paycheck, only a skeleton salary crew running the show.

What this country really needs is a president who doesn't pardon the turkey.

Never thought that I would shout out a rave to Sarah Palin but when she put the blame for the economy on the past administration, I wanted to shout hooray even though I still won't vote for "nutsy ."

There is a "shortage of school bus drivers" in Richmond County. With such high unemployment, how can it be that people aren't flocking to those jobs? Can it be that Americans have already become so worthless, they'd rather take a government handout than take a government job?

Carjackings at Augusta Mall, stabbings in front of Best Buy, two girls shot dead and dumped, a man shot in the face. This whole town will look as prosperous as Detroit in no time at all.

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ranter 2, yes yes. and i believe it would help reduce the numer of 'career politicians' if they received a salary equal to the average of their respective state. (phat chance of either of those being passed by said legislative body)

#6- No you want vote for "nutsy" but you will vote for wealth redistributing, inexperianced community organizer, who you don't really know about his college record or his record as a state Senator from Illinios?

I used to read comics as a child and remember the Beetle Baily cartoon. Because the strip has been running 60 years I think its safe to say that the writer knows what he's doing, but to make you happy here is a sample of them as buddies...

Sarah Palin "nutsy" ???? HEY man....wish I could mak the millions she's making now...she is milking this attention as far as she can....making $$$
Don't want her as President but I give the woman credit though for turning around the haters & making dough off of the tv media......they USED her & MADE a fool of her....now it's her turn.....I would say she is dimmmmm smart!!

Why don't folks flock to the school bus jobs??
Well maybe because they treat the drivers LIKE DIRT
The pay stinks!
The kids misbehave
Get the pay right & give these drivers some RESPECT......they after all hauling YOUR spoiled kiddies around----ya better hope they are in a good mood....I for one would toss some baddies off the bus.
Be thankful I don't go for the job.....or you could be picking up junior at the police station where I dropped him off!

Ranter: "I have read the comics almost all my life and one of the things that gets me is what goes on with Beetle Bailey and the abuse he takes from Sgt. Snorkel. It is time to put that to rest and let there be peace between them and stop the fighting. Set an example of peace between them and let them work together. If not, send them to Korea and let them fight against the communists." If you don't like Beetle and the Sarge, don't read it. Beetle and the Sarge present a satire on life in general....and there's nothing wrong with that. People need to laugh at their foolish mistakes and the underdog has the right to get the upper hand once in a while (which Beetle does very well thank you). You take yourself too seriously; relax.

Football FINALLY makes sense...........
A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience.

'Oh, I really liked it,' she replied, 'especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents.'

Dumbfounded, her date asked, 'What do you mean?'

'Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like...Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!